Maxime de la Rocheterie on Marie-Antoinette

"She was not a guilty woman, neither was she a saint; she was an upright, charming woman, a little frivolous, somewhat impulsive, but always pure; she was a queen, at times ardent in her fancies for her favourites and thoughtless in her policy, but proud and full of energy; a thorough woman in her winsome ways and tenderness of heart, until she became a martyr."

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

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Monday, March 21, 2016

She continues, “While we, the underclass, have to work two and three
jobs, rack up a debt our children and grandchildren are going to have to
pay for generations. And to scare you into submission, they predict
Trump cannot win the general election.” She asks if that is the case,
then “Why does he keep winning the primaries and drawing crowds like
we’ve never seen in American primary history?

She cites statistics which
indicate that in addition to appealing to the base, Trump is winning
with independents and Democrats as well, asking, “Does that not bode
well for the general election, especially against an establishment
politician most people consider untrustworthy and dishonest?

“So now they say he’s divisive,” says Pirro, who then points out that
all of the chaos-dispensing groups predate Trump, including Black
Lives Matter and Moveon.org, as well as the melees in Ferguson and
Baltimore. She calls it astonishing that the Republicans are plotting
against their own frontrunner. But she knows why.

She notes that under the current political configuration,
no matter who wins, the entrenched power structure doesn’t lose. Their
jobs, offices and lifestyles remain intact as they “continue on their
treadmill of DC money and power. The party elders are petrified of
Trump. The man is beholden to no one. He wins and it’s game over for the
elites. With Hillary, the game goes on.”

Judge Pirro warns, “Heads up Washington, we’re not listening to you
anymore because we’re fed up. You haven’t fixed a damn thing and we
can’t take it anymore; the lies, the corruption, the debt, the taxes,
the invasion, the freebies, the
lack of accountability, sanctuary cities, religions forced to violate
their own faith by providing birth control at the altar of Obamacare.” (Read more.)

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